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The Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill would result in reductions in federal Medicaid funding to states ranging from 27 percent to 39 percent by 2036. Trump to get elected said one thing but meant another regarding these important issues — Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

The central pitch for the Trump administration’s proposed federal budget is that it will jump start economic growth. “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” as the budget revealed is being called, promises a spike in annual GDP growth over the next decade from less than 2 percent to 3 percent.

The Senate Republican health care bill presented on Thursday exempts members of Congress from parts of their plan. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders objects declaring their actions hypocritical and nonsensical.

On Wednesday, in response to a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans, Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski criticized GOP leaders’ attempt to scale back Medicaid spending in their repeal efforts to overturn the Affordable Care Act.

President Trump’s advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, reflecting the Trump administration’s struggle to define its strategy for dealing with a war now 16 years old.